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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Is Amazon Killing Literary Culture? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast

Is Amazon Killing Literary Culture? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast:

Links in this article go to varying points of view. My response is ... what literary culture?
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